Chris Harnish, 61, will soon depart on a 5-month tour, south and west, via recreational vehicle to find the perfect retirement home.
Betty Adams
Betty Adams is a general assignment reporter who’s lived in Augusta for the past 35 years and been working for the Kennebec Journal for more than two decades. She covers the courts plus the towns of Belgrade, Fayette and Readfield.
As adjunct instructor Elizabeth Adams, she teaches writing courses, including journalism, at the University of Maine at Augusta.
In her spare time, when she’s not playing with the grandchildren, bicycling on the rail trail, snowshoeing or cross-country skiing, she likes to travel both in the United States and abroad via cruise ship and occasionally on the back of a motorcycle.
She is a graduate of the Pennsylvania State University and earned a master’s of journalism from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.
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State suspends payments to Augusta-based mental health centers
About 500 people in central Maine will have to get MaineCare-paid services through other agencies after the state stopped payments to Augusta-based Umbrella Mental Health Services and AngleZ Behavioral Health Services.
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Belgrade reports ‘tremendous summer’ with tourists
A study conducted this summer shows 80 percent of the 5,000 people who visited the Maine Lakes Resource Center to pick up information were from away.
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Feds move to drop Chelsea culvert fraud charge against Marshall Swan
Less than a week before Marshall Swan’s scheduled trial date in federal court, the prosecutor sought to dismiss a pending charge of aiding and abetting federal program fraud related to the culvert project on Windsor Road in Chelsea.
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Maine rights commission upholds 3 discrimination claims
A volunteer driver for a community aid agency, a bus passenger, and a dental office worker all won support today for their claims that they were subjected to illegal discrimination.
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An arrest on no charge: State law, used rarely for victims, lands allegedly battered Chelsea woman in jail
Prosecutors say Jessica Ruiz might risk death if she fails to testify at her alleged abuser’s trial, but her lawyer cites “outrageous conduct” by Kennebec County’s district attorney.
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Two years after charges at fair, Clinton woman cleared of resisting arrest, violating protection order
Dannielle Douglass, 41, might sue the town because of injuries she says she suffered during her arrest.
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New consolidated courts building one step closer to completion
One of the final pieces of steel was placed atop four stories of steel and concrete Wednesday on what will be the hub of the state court system.
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Swan found guilty of taking kickbacks from plow contractor
A jury late Tuesday night convicted former longtime Chelsea selectwoman Carole Swan of taking kickbacks from Frank Monroe, who held the town’s sand and plow contracts.
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Jury deliberating former Chelsea selectwoman’s federal extortion case
In closing arguments, attorneys disagree on Carole Swan’s claim that she was investigating a Whitefield contractor.